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Developing a R4D approach at farm-level - consultation and writing workshop

Infocentre break out room, 13-14 September, ILRI Ethiopia
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Organizers' agenda


Objectives

  • Share a methodological approach for demand-driven R4D within the context of the AfricaRISING.
  • Identify and discuss major issues of the approach with a larger R&D community.
  • Find ways forward to tackle these issues based on the knowledge and experiences of this larger community.

Thursday 13 September
Friday 14 September
08.30
 Registration

09.00
  • Introduction
  • Presentations:
    • Africa RISING & research framework
    • Systems approaches
    • Demand-driven R4D
  • Clarification questions
 08.30
  • Recap day 1
  • Group work:
    • Review positive and negative aspects of day 1 ideas in random groups
    • Work on specific topics in 'interest' groups
    • Present group work
10.15
 Coffee break
 10.00
 Coffee break
10.45
 10.30
 (individual/Group work) Writeshop:
  • Organisational arrangement
  • Capacity building strategy
  • Up & out-scaling
  • Emerging issues
12.30
 Lunch break
 12.30
 Lunch break
13.30
  • Organizing an R4D approach: underlying issues, promising strategies and examples of:
    • Organisational arrangement
    • Capacity building strategy
    • Up & out-scaling
    • Emerging issues (from previous session)
 13.30
  • Presentation writeshop results
  • Reflections about the writeshop and gaps (Diego)
15.30
 Coffee break
 14.30
 Closing session
  • Evaluation
  • Next steps
  • Final words
16.00
 Closing session
  • Presentations of group work
  • Commentary by selected people
  • Recap and plans for day 2
 15.00
 Close
17.00
 Close

17.30
 Drinks and food


Detailed plans:

Day 1

AM1.1
  • (5min) [Diego] opening the workshop
  • (25 min) [Ewen] introduction of the agenda and participants (speed dating in circles), ground rules;
  • (20 min) Presentation [Jerry] about the Africa RISING workshop + buzzing with 2-3 people to come up with questions;
  • (20 min) Presentation [Ken] on systems approaches + buzzing to come up with questions;
  • (20 min) Presentation [Ann] on R4D + buzzing to come up with questions
  • (15 min) Key questions for clarification (and challenges of operationalization?) - only 1 per buzz group
AM1.2
  • (20 min) Presentation [Jens] on conceptual approach - 15 min pres + 5 min (2 or 3) burning questions
  • (20 min) Presentation [Diego] about implementation & recommendations - 15 min + 5 min Q&A
  • (50 min) Group work: Short fishbowl battle on pros and cons of the approach + (optional plenary reflection on insights) fish bowl for consolidation of insights and emerging issues...
PM1.1
  • (5 min) Introduction group work [Ewen]
  • (10 min) Short presentation [Diego] about key issues in R4D approach - to check with Diego
  • (60 min) World cafe on the existing issues around the question: issues, strategies, examples of (key issue) for R4D: What should and can we do about this?
    • If too many topics, organize a marketplace and find someone to champion it;
  • (30 min) Short peer review with one person going around to visit each other's ideas.
  • (15 min) Consolidation in dedicated groups to develop a more comprehensive overview
PM1.2
  • (45 min) Presentation group work
  • (15 min) Feedback Jerry, Peter, Ann, Diego
  • (5 min) Recap [Ann or participants]

Day 2

AM2.1
  • (5 min) Brief recap day 1 [Laurens] and introduction day 2 [Ewen]
  • (25 min) Green and red cards (in buzz groups) to flag interesting insights and ideas and challenges of questions for Africa RISING.
  • (25 min) Have groups champion some topics and come up with a refined plan for each of these topics + roaming group to ensure cross-pollination.
  • (35 min) Presentation of plans.
AM2.2
  • (120 min) Writeshop - to be fleshed out by Diego. Could be: Take the ideas from day 1 and work further on them in groups, with roaming AfricaRISING group to answer questions and help shape up reflections in a pragmatic way for the program - Develop template.
PM2.1
  • (60 min) Presenting Writeshop ideas + clarification questions + feedback Diego / Ann for each - in plenary.
PM2.2
  • (15 min) Reflections by Diego and Ann about feedback given and implications + next steps [Diego].
  • (15 min) Short spectrogram evaluation of participants about liking the workshop and about believing in applicability.